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The 8th Annual Connecticut Authors Trail, a series of free talks at 20 Eastern Connecticut libraries from Mansfield to Mystic, will lead to a finale on Thursday, Sept. 15, from 6:15 to 9 p.m., at Mohegan Sun Cabaret Theatre, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, with a free talk at 7 p.m. by award-winning romance writer Kristan Higgins. Many of the authors who gave presentations in trail talks will mingle with guests.

Higgins, of Durham, is the bestselling author of more than 12 novels and has twice won a Romance Writers of America RITA Award. Her novels have been named to best-books-of-the-year lists by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, National Public Radio, Library Journal, iBooks and...

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